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Incremental evaluation for attribute grammars with application to syntax-directed editors
Abstract
A syntax-directed editor is a tool for structured program development. Such an editor can enforce syntactic correctness incrementally by restricting editing operations to legitimate modifications of the program's context-free derivation tree. However, not all language features can be described by the context-free formalism. To build editors that enforce non-context-free correctness, a more powerful specification technique is needed. In this paper we discuss the advantages of attribute grammars as a specification technique for a syntax-directed editing system. We also present an efficient algorithm for incrementally evaluating attributes as a program tree is derived.
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The Cornell program synthesizer: a syntax-directed programming environment
Teitelbaum, T., & Reps, T. (1981) · Communications of the ACM · doi:10.1145/358746.358755 · Cited by 710
Self-citationMokhov, A., Mitchell, N., & Peyton Jones, S. (2018) · Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages · doi:10.1145/3236774 · Cited by 38
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- Authors
- Demers, A., Reps, T., & Teitelbaum, T.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages - POPL '81
- Publisher
- ACM Press
- Published
- 1981
- Pages
- 105-116
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- W2069718764
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- FWCI
- 6.15
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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